esquivo

esquivo

1. first-person singular present indicative of esquivar

• esguivio, esquío, esquivio

From Old Galician-Portuguese esquivo (“harsh”), perhaps from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍃 (*skiuhs), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“shy”).^[1]

• IPA^(key):

esquivo (feminine esquiva, masculine plural esquivos, feminine plural esquivas)

1. asocial

   Synonyms: arisco, arredío

2. elusive

   Synonym: elusivo

3. rude, cruel
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 191:

     Et tã grande foy aly a batalla et tã esquiua que de mayor nõ poderia ome falar

     So large and crude was the battle there, that none could say that he had seen any larger one

4. scarce, miserly, stingy
   • 1427, José I. Fernández de Viana y Vieites (ed.), Colección diplomática del monasterio de Santa María de Pantón. Lugo: Diputación, page 187:

     Item mando que me teñan triinta clérigos á miña sepultura et ao ... et mays outros quaesquer clérigos que a elo chegaren, que non sejan esquivos

     Item, I order that they should bring thirty priest to my sepulchre and any other priest brought there; they shouldn't be mean.

5. harsh
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 561:

     Et começou o torneo a creçer tãto, et a seer o acapelamento tã grande, et a uolta et os braados et os alaridos et os sõos dos cornos et das tronpas tã grandes et tã esquiuos que ome nõ se podía oýr

     And the tournament began to grow so much, and the carnage was so large, and the din and the shouts and the yells and the sound of the horns and of the trumpets so big and harsh that a man couldn't heard himself

• esquivamente
• esquivar
• esquiveza

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “esquivo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “esquiu”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esquivo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “esquivo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Old Galician-Portuguese esquivo (“cruel”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍃 (*skiuhs), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“shy”).

esquivo (feminine esquiva, masculine plural esquivos, feminine plural esquivas)

1. asocial (not sociable)

   Synonyms: antissocial, arisco, arredio, associal, esquivoso, intratável

2. elusive (evading capture or comprehension)

   Synonyms: elusivo, fugidio

   • 2014, “Moça Esquiva”, in Jorge Cruz (lyrics), Diabo na Cruz, performed by Diabo na Cruz:

     Roubo um beijo a correr
     Toca a enxotar
     Agarrar é às escuras
     Navegar só à deriva
     Ai Jesus, que moça esquiva

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. untameable (incapable of being controlled, subdued, or tamed)

   Synonyms: arisco, bravio, indomável

esquivo

1. first-person singular present indicative of esquivar

Possibly from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍃 (*skiuhs), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“shy, timid”), see also Old English scēoh, Middle High German schiech (“timid”).

• IPA^(key): /esˈkibo/
• Rhymes: -ibo
• Syllabification: es‧qui‧vo

esquivo (feminine esquiva, masculine plural esquivos, feminine plural esquivas)

1. disdainful

   Synonym: desdeñoso

2. rough

   Synonym: áspero

3. unsociable, elusive, evasive

   Synonym: huraño

   • 2017, “Que No”, in Enrique Rangel (lyrics), Jei Beibi, performed by Café Tacvba:

     Ella era distinta, era distante / Era esquiva y se ocultaba

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

esquivo

1. first-person singular present indicative of esquivar

• “esquivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10